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Letters to JMG

• Screening for genomic rearrangements of the MMR genes must be included in the routine diagnosis of HNPCC

  (16 January, 2004)

  F Di Fiore, F Charbonnier, C Martin, S Frerot, S Olschwang, Q Wang, C Boisson, M-P Buisine, M Nilbert, A Lindblom, T Frebourg
• Common apolipoprotein E polymorphisms and risk of clinical malaria in the Gambia (16 January, 2004)

  C Aucan, A J Walley, A V S Hill
• Refining the phenotype of common mutations in Rett syndrome (16 January, 2004)

  L Colvin, H Leonard, N de Klerk, M Davis, L Weaving, S Williamson, J Christodoulou
• A case control and family based association study of the neuregulin1 gene and schizophrenia (16 January, 2004)

  X Zhao, Y Shi, J Tang, R Tang, L Yu, N Gu, G Feng, S Zhu, H Liu, Y Xing, S Zhao, H Sang, Y Guan, D St Clair, L He
• Mental retardation and cardiovascular malformations in NF1 microdeleted patients point to candidate genes in 17q11.2

  (16 January, 2004)

  M Venturin, P Guarnieri, F Natacci, M Stabile, R Tenconi, M Clementi, C Hernandez, P Thompson, M Upadhyaya, L Larizza, P Riva
• A locus on 15q15-15qter influences dyslexia: further support from a transmission/disequilibrium study in an Italian speaking population (16 January, 2004)

  C Marino, R Giorda, L Vanzin, M Nobile, M L Lorusso, C Baschirotto, L Riva, M Molteni, M Battaglia
• Congo red, doxycycline, and HSP70 overexpression reduce aggregate formation and cell death in cell models of oculopharyngeal muscular dystrophy (16 January, 2004)

  Y P Bao, S Sarkar, E Uyama, D C Rubinsztein
• Missense mutations in the β strands of the single A-domain of matrilin-3 result in multiple epiphyseal dysplasia (16 January, 2004)

  G C Jackson, F S Barker, E Jakkula, M Czarny-Ratajczak, O Mäkitie, W G Cole, M J Wright, S F Smithson, M Suri, P Rogala, G R Mortier, C Baldock, A Wallace, R Elles, L Ala-Kokko, M D Briggs
• Expression of Gja1 correlates with the phenotype observed in oculodentodigital syndrome/type III syndactyly

  (16 January, 2004)

  R Richardson, D Donnai, F Meire, M J Dixon
• TBX22 mutations are a frequent cause of cleft palate

  (16 January, 2004)

  A C B Marçano, K Doudney, C Braybrook, R Squires, M A Patton, M M Lees, A Richieri-Costa, A C Lidral, J C Murray, G E Moore, P Stanier
• Identification of COL2A1 mutations in platyspondylic skeletal dysplasia, Torrance type

  (16 January, 2004)

  G Nishimura, E Nakashima, A Mabuchi, K Shimamoto, T Shimamoto, Y Shimao, T Nagai, T Yamaguchi, R Kosaki, H Ohashi, Y Makita, S Ikegawa